Clark Gallery is honored to announce James Aponovich has set out on an unprecendented marathon. An internationally renowned painter, James will be devoting himself to completing one painting each week for the next 52 weeks. Please follow along on James' Blog at: APONOVICH 52, and join him on his remarkable journey. With each completed painting, James will post an entry with notes on his painstaking process enabling the viewer unequaled access to the thoughts, inspirations and work ethic of this important American painter.

Aponovich paints complex still life compositions, with a strong undercurrent of surrealism pervading the work. His exquisite paintings are distinguished by their geometry, proportion, composition and light filled atmosphere. Referencing 17th Century Dutch and Flemish still life painters, masters of the Renaissance, and the surreal compositional components of mid 20th century painters, Aponovich's paintings are technically astounding idealizations of reality.

James has a lengthy and illustrious exhibition history. His paintings and drawings are represented in museum collections across the country including: the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the New Britain Museum of American Art; the Art Institute of Chicago; The Currier Museum of Art; the Arkansas Art Institute; the Portland Museum of Art, among others. Aponovich lives in New Hampshire, where he was bestowed the honorary designation as the State of New Hampshire's Artist Laureate.

With APONOVICH 52, James will be entering a new terrain for painters of his genre. With his strict conceptual time-based premise of completing one painting each week for one year, with the resulting 52 paintings becoming the subject of an exhibition at year's end, his painting methodolgy becomes part performance, part ritual and part obsession. In directing all his thought and efforts to completing a painting each week, APONOVICH 52 becomes a work of profound contemplation on art and the act of painting: transcendent,inspirational and visionary.

Please check in at APONOVICH 52 to see each painting unveiled every week. And please be sure to visit the exhibition in May of 2012.